Articles Tagged With: COVID-19
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New Normal in Occupational Health: Telework, Equity, Humility
What is the post-pandemic “new normal” in occupational health? Changes that seem here to stay for employee health professionals and their colleagues include telework and telehealth.
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Health Worker Burnout Is a Crisis; CDC Calls for Science-Based Steps to Improve Worker Well-Being
It is hardly a news flash to providers and staff in the ED that they often work long hours in a highly stressful environment, but according to new research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the levels of fatigue and burnout that all healthcare workers are experiencing have reached crisis levels, and administrators there are calling for urgent action to address the problem.
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The Benefits and Challenges of Telemedicine for Mental Health
It is well-known that telehealth provided a much-needed service in 2020 and following, especially as people desired to stay in their homes while addressing health concerns. The same is true for mental healthcare. However, did the increase in tele-mental health visits translate into a higher quality of care?
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Feelings of Betrayal and Burnout Rampant Among HCWs During the Pandemic
HCWs experienced institutional betrayal and high rates of burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic from July 2020 to January 2021, according to the authors of a new study. Nearly three in five HCWs believed their institution betrayed them. They experienced stress, fear, anxiety, and concerns about their work environments.
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Hospital-at-Home Primary Care and Case Management Team Helps with Challenging Cases
As any case manager knows, preventing readmissions and ED visits by the most at-risk patients is an enormous challenge. It requires addressing all the social determinants of health needs they may have, as well as finding creative and affordable solutions.
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Hospital-at-Home Programs Can Work — Even When the Home Is a Car
A case management-style hospital-at-home program produced $6 million in savings and cut hospitalizations by 53% in one year.
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APIC, SHEA Say Mandate COVID Shots for HCWs
Although the federal requirement that healthcare workers be vaccinated against COVID-19 has been lifted, a statement signed by the nation’s leading infection control groups and various other associations emphasizes the importance of mandatory vaccination by individual hospitals.
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How Did the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect Permanent Contraception Procedures?
A national review of inpatient permanent contraception procedures between Jan. 1, 2019, and Dec. 31, 2020, demonstrated that the rate of procedures decreased in 2020 compared with 2019, with the steepest monthly decline (14.5%) being between February and April 2020, the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The End of the Tether: Healthcare Workers in Mental Health Turmoil
Some healthcare workers are hanging by a thread as thin as a suture. Others have fallen — due to COVID-19, workplace violence, or by their own hand. Many have fled healthcare as if it were a burning building. Perhaps, more appropriately, a burned-out building. Too many healthcare workers today are described as anything but well. Mentally, they are at the end of the tether: burned out, morally injured, compassion fatigued, with some depressed to the point of suicidal ideation.
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Respiratory Triple Play: Vaccination Is the Key
As a trifecta of viruses converge this fall and winter, the United States has an unprecedented infection control counterpunch: vaccines for the 2023-2024 flu season, new shots for respiratory syncytial virus, and the latest formula to protect against COVID-19.